The Latest: Portugal extends state of emergency amid virus

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LISBON, Portugal -- Portugal’s parliament has voted by a comfortable margin to extend the country’s state of emergency by two weeks amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

The state of emergency has allowed the government to impose nighttime and weekend curfews across most of the country.

Officials are expected to further tighten restrictions on movements in areas of high contagion. Health experts say they expect the recent resurgence of COVID-19 to peak next week.

Portugal’s 14-day cumulative number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 of population is 769 — higher than neighbouring Spain and close to France and Italy, according to the European Centre for Disease Control.

Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita told lawmakers Friday the government will likely need to extend the state of emergency again next month.

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